Dubai: A student landed in court for using someone else’s Emirates ID while police were questioning him following his arrest for staying in the country illegally since 2004.
Law enforcement officers were said to have apprehended the 32-year-old Russian student and took him in to the police station for questioning in March.
When he was being questioned, the student claimed to the interrogating officer that he was someone who, according to records, turned out to have left the UAE before seven months.
When the officer confronted the officer with the findings, the 32-year-old admitted that he had impersonated another person by using his Emirates ID.
Prosecutors accused the Russian of using someone else Emirates ID and giving false details about his identification during an official police enquiry.
The suspect pleaded guilty when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance and admitted that he used the Emirates ID of another Russian person during the interrogation.
When presiding judge Ahmad Mohammad presented the seized ID, which the suspect has been accused of using, the Russian student confirmed that it was the same document.
A police lieutenant claimed to prosecutors that the Russian was brought into custody at a police station in March.
“Upon asking him for his identification papers, he handed us an Emirates ID that had a certain name of a Kyrgyz national. Upon checking on the police system, it was discovered that the Kyrgyz national had left the country seven months earlier. I summoned the Russian for further interrogations, during which he admitted that he had impersonated the Kyrgyz national because he had been staying illegally in the UAE since 2004,” the lieutenant testified.
The suspect was quoted admitting to prosecutors that he used the Kyrgyz’s Emirates ID because he had flouted the Entry and Residency Law.
Records said the Naturalisation and Residency Misdemeanours Court convicted the 32-year-old of staying in the country illegally and slapped him a fine.
